It is a very beautiful composition and performance of raag Malkauns from great sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan with his sons Ayaan and Amaan Ali Khan in Italy, 1995.Ustad Amjad Ali Khan has received the three national Padma Awards: Padma Shri in 1975, Padma Bhushan in 1991, and Padma Vibhushan in 2001, and was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1989. He was awarded the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2004 and on April 8, 2007, he was honoured with the Key to the City award by Kathy Taylor Mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma state, for his long-standing contribution to the Indian Classical Music. Houston and Nashville has conferred him honorary citizenship in 1997. Massachusetts has declared April 20 as the 'Amjad Ali Khan Day' in 1984. Tulsa is the third US city to confer honorary citizenship to him.
Sarod resital is in honor of Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, founder of Sahaja Yoga.
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